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Review: Cotton Candy Chubby Soda

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Chubby Cotton Candy Cream Soda

This is another Dollar General Store find from a little while back. Before the review, we have to address the name – Chubby. Whose bright idea was it to call a soda Chubby? I can only assume it was named for the cute little Chubby bottle it comes in and not how you look or feel after drinking it.

I picked this up because it said it was Cotton Candy Cream Soda flavor, so I figured I’d try it out. I like Cream Soda – I usually grab an A&W Cream Soda at least once whenever I’m doing travelling across state lines by car. This was bright pink and definitely tasted like cream soda. It also had a secondary flavor that I wouldn’t classify as cotton candy – I thought it was more raspberry-ish. Overall, it wasn’t a great soda, but wasn’t bad.

I drank maybe half of it and shared the rest with my four-year old daughter – she LOVED it and I kept filling the empty Chubby bottle up all day with water for her. At 8.45 ounces, it’s just her size.

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Candy Cocktail: Fish Bowl

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Swedish Fish
(Swedish Fish photo from Wikipedia)

Over at the excellent drink recipe site, Extratasty, I found this recipe for a Fish Bowl:

2.5 parts Vodka
3 parts Grape juice
Nerds
Swedish Fish

To prepare the drink add the vodka, grape juice and a handful of ice to a shaker. Stir thoroughly and strain into a wine glass. Now add the nerds, they’ll sink to the bottom. Top it off with a swedish fish which will swim around while enjoy your fish bowl cocktail.

This sounds like a great party drink!

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Atomic Fireball Cinnamon Mead

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Atomic Fireballs

The link below takes you to a recipe for Atomic Fireball Cinnamon Mead. I thought mead was some sort of old-tyme beer/alcoholic drink, but just to make sure I looked it up at dictionary.com:

mead n.
An alcoholic beverage made from fermented honey and water.

Ok, so I was right about that. The recipe makes some sort of alcoholic beverage using Atomic Fireballs but it sounds nasty to begin with since it uses “3/4 gallon Arizona green tea (spoiled!)”. What’s with the line “The Atomic Fireballs were hard to find, and expensive when I did find them.” Fireballs are cheap – maybe the person doing this is not in the U.S.?

If you’re interested, there are lots of other mead recipes at the site too.

UPDATE: as of 5/2007, looks like the site is down. Sorry :(

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Bubble Yum Soda

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Bubble Yum Soda
(photo by Flickr user Look In The Tunk

Thanks go to a reader and blogger named David for this one. He told me that in a visit to his local 7-11 he found Bubble Yum Soda. It comes in Original (Bubble Gum) and Sour Cherry flavors. David tried the Sour Cherry and said it was “surprisingly tasty”. I did some poking around online and found out that this soda is a 7-11 exclusive and that there was a Bubble Yum soda back in the 80s (I don’t remember it).

Anybody tried this? I may have to try and stop by a 7-11 to grab these to give them a try.

Also see: Candy Corn Soda

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Some oddball mints

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Duff Beer Mints

Just some random oddball mints I have run across lately:

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